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hey All,

I love organizers and have been delaying for too long on some of my games.

what are some of your favorite organizers and accessories?

in addition finally got one for Spirit Island recently but the two I really would like and haven't done yet are dead of winter and mansions of madness. would love some advice

I've got every expansion for mansions and so right now they are in a crazy setup with a knitting crate that holds everything pretty well given all the minis, but if there is anything out there that you guys have found for quick setup I will be all over it.

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[–] Ok_imagination 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've mainly only used generic containers/holders and have to check out that wingspan one you mentioned, but I really like x-trayz. They are so useful with a few different shapes, and stackable.

[–] OmnislashIsACloudApp 1 points 4 months ago

oh nice I'll check that out

[–] OmnislashIsACloudApp 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

oh and I supposed to answer my own question:

(are we allowed to do links here? I will drop them if joe)

top organizers and accessories for me are probably:

quick draw and setup on wingspan from Etsy, lets me set up the entire game in about 3 minutes, wife and I play it all the time in part because of how quick it is to set up and tear down.

so many little things for Arkham LCG, I've gotten card mats with custom images on them, mythos draw bags, connectors for locations and stuff.

[–] donio 2 points 4 months ago

I think links should be fine and useful in this case, I'd just avoid affiliate tags and such.

[–] donio 3 points 4 months ago

Not a huge fan of inserts and I end up tossing them more often than not but the basic Res Aracana insert is one that I find exemplary. It doesn't make the box larger than it needs to be, it has room for both expansions and most importantly it serves as an ergonomic storage tray during the game.

I've seen third party inserts that looked tempting but they were too expensive and organized things differently from the way I liked. In particular I like to bag together everything that a given player color needs for their setup, that way I can just hand everybody their own bag for their personal setup.

My favorite accessories are a couple of very cheap sectioned trays that I use as component trays for almost every game and some simple card holders for games that need it.